It appears noose is tightening around former chief executive officer of the popular Telugu television channel TV9 Ravi Prakash and his accomplice – Telugu actor Sivaji in connection with a series of frauds committed by them in the channel.
The Cyberabad police in Hyderabad on Saturday served lookout notices on Ravi Prakash and Shivaji, as they failed to respond to the notices served on them under 41-A of Criminal Procedure Code and appear before the police.
The police have sent notices to all the airports in the country so that the duo would not escape to foreign countries. They are also requesting the passport authorities to impound the passports of Ravi Prakash and Sivaji.
It is learnt the Cyberabad police pressed into service four special teams to search for the two accused and arrest them without any warrant.
The police had already filed several cases against Ravi Prakash, Sivaji and two others on charges of forgery and criminal conspiracy, among others.
The police claimed to have gained clinching evidence with regard to Ravi Prakash’s attempts to stall the new management from taking over the channel by creating a back-dated agreement between him and actor Sivaji for fake transfer of 40,000 shares and thereby lodging a complaint to the National Company Law Tribunal against the management change.
What caused more trouble to Ravi Prakash is the latest complaint lodged by the Alanda Media with the police that he had disposed of the TV9 title and other trademarks of the channel to Mojo TV owned by him for a paltry Rs 99,000. The police booked a case against him.
